Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.3° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 17.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Buntsandstein Group, Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Listed as "Oberer? Buntsandstein" (Upper Buntsandstein) by Krebs (1969: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 62:697-714). Upper Buntsandstein is early Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: O. Jaekel. 1904. Über ein neues Reptil aus dem Buntsandstein der Eifel. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 56:90-94 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134292: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eifelosaurus triadicus n. gen. n. sp.
Eifelosaurus triadicus n. gen. n. sp. Jaekel 1904 rhynchocephalian Articulated partial skeleton including dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, partial pelvis and femora. Specimen in Goldfuß-Museum of the University of Bonn
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